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Kokizzu
Asked: 2013-01-17 16:58:10 +0800 CST

How to install dcop?

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I tried to run dcop, since my yakuake cannot be shown again in my Cinnamon, and I don't want to restart my yakuake. I found that this command can make my yakuake show again:

dcop yakuake DCOPInterface slotToggleState

But I got no luck running it:

$ dcop
No command 'dcop' found, did you mean:
 Command 'dtop' from package 'diod' (universe)
 Command 'dccp' from package 'dcap' (universe)
 Command 'bcop' from package 'compiz-fusion-bcop' (universe)
dcop: command not found

I've tried to search it, but no luck:

$ apt-cache search dcop
courier-filter-perl - purely Perl-based mail filter framework for the Courier MTA
gambas3 - Complete visual development environment for Gambas
grace - XY graphing and plotting tool
jless - A file pager program, similar to more(1) supporting ISO2022
konversation - user friendly Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for KDE
xgraph - Plotting program, reads stdin, allows interactive zooming

So, in which package dcop application is contained?

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It's obsolete and has been removed

    DCOP the protocol is now being handled by D-Bus, the former dcop command is an old KDE thing.

    It's even in the Wikipedia: DCOP page you provided yourself!

    DCOP was replaced by D-Bus in KDE Software Compilation 4.

    [...]

    D-Bus, a message bus system standardized by freedesktop.org, was heavily influenced by the DCOP system and replaces DCOP in KDE Software Compilation 4.

    So, have a look at the possibilities the dbus-* commands can do for you.

    I think you were looking at a very old or mixed up sources, as Cinnamon is quite new thing while this has been obsoleted since the release of KDE 4 in 2008.

    Move to D-Bus

    In KDE, to toggle the window state of Yakuake Terminal emulator, do this (verified working):

    qdbus org.kde.yakuake /yakuake/window toggleWindowState

    How to get this working in Cinnamon? Not sure, as Yakuake is a KDE program and I'm not familiar with non-Qt D-Bus implementations.

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  2. According to Ubuntu Package Search : http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=lucid&arch=any&searchon=contents&keywords=dcop

    It is contain in kdelibs until lucid (Ubuntu 10.04).

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